Our lake is no ordinary lake. 77 million years ago a half-a-kilometer-wide meteorite hit Earth, right here. The explosive impact killed all life. Eventually water began to trickle into the huge crater, and the lake was born. The basin has an unusually round shape, and on the shores one can find black, porous mass, a result of the meteorite having fused into the local bedrock.

Sometimes I look at the wide water and wonder what led the meteorite here. How life survived, and how vulnerable, how coincidental, how small we really are.